Shares in Union Pacific Co. (UNP) Acquired by Cpcm LLC

The Average Volume of the company is 3.65 Million and P/E (price to earnings) ratio is 20.9, while Forward P/E ratio is 16.69. Washington Trust Bank raised its stake in Union Pacific by 8.6% in the third quarter. Nationwide Fund Advisors now owns 610,153 shares of the railroad operator's stock valued at $59,508,000 after buying an additional 63,058 shares in the last quarter. Finally, West Oak Capital LLC raised its stake in Union Pacific by 6.2% in the third quarter.

The Stock now has the market capitalization of $9.81 Billion, P/E (price to earnings ttm) of 41.3 and Weekly volatility of 1.75% and monthly volatility of 1.55% respectively. While some analysts have a High Price target for the stock of $24 and a Low Price Target of $16.5. The Stock opened its session at $20.23 and closed at $20.4 by showing increase of 0.94 percent. Moving averages are used as a strong indicator for technical stock analysis and it helps investors in figuring out where the stock has been and also help in determining where it may be possibly heading.

The share price of the company (NYSE:WU) was down -0.93% during the last trading session, with a high of 20.46 and the volume of Western Union Company (The) shares traded was 2469166. The railroad operator reported $1.39 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.33 by $0.06. Union Pacific had a net margin of 21.23% and a return on equity of 20.88%. The company had revenue of $1371.70 million for the quarter, compared to analysts expectations of $1373.79 million. During the same quarter a year ago, the business posted $1.31 earnings per share. The Western Union Company's quarterly revenue was down.6% compared to the same quarter previous year.

Currently, the company has SMA200 (200-day simple moving average) of 1.57 Percent.

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, March 31st. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 24th. This represents a $2.42 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.28%. Union Pacific's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 47.64%.

Several research firms have recently weighed in on UNP.

Continuing its outreach that launched almost two years ago, Union Pacific implores photographers and the entire photography community to not take pictures on or near railroad tracks. According to 28 analysts, Price Target for Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE:UNP) may hit a high of $142.

Union Pacific Corporation (UNP) will report its next earnings on April 19 - Apr 24 (Est.). Stifel Nicolaus boosted their target price on shares of Union Pacific from $98.00 to $102.00 and gave the stock a "hold" rating in a research report on Friday, January 20th. Finally, Buckingham Research began coverage on Union Pacific in a report on Wednesday, January 18th. The average and low price target for the stock are $113.21 and $70, respectively.

Some buy side analysts are also providing their Analysis on Union Pacific Corporation, where 0 analysts have rated the stock as Strong buy, 0 analysts have given a Buy signal, 0 said it's a HOLD, 0 reported it as Underperform and 0 analysts rated the stock as Sell. There may be various price targets for a stock. During the trading on 03/17/2017, Company's stock ranged from $105.10 to $106.05. Following the transaction, the executive vice president now owns 50,583 shares in the company, valued at $5,406,816.87. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. The shares were sold at an average price of $109.53, for a total transaction of $438,120.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now owns 22,400 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $2,453,472. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Hence, the surprise factor was 0 percent.

Union Pacific Corporation is a railroad operating company in the United States.